New Mexico
ModerateLobo Peak to Taos Ski Valley — Carson National Forest High Divide Road
11,500 feet of aspen and elk above Taos.
Surface: Gravel
Alaska
ModerateKennecott to McCarthy Road — Wrangell-St. Elias Glacier Country Drive
Railroad spikes, glacier views, and zero cell service.
Canada
ModerateTrans-Labrador Highway — Baie-Comeau to Labrador City via the Quebec-Labrador Divide
North America's loneliest highway. Earn it.
Morocco
ModeratePiste de l’Erg Chebbi — Erfoud to Merzouga via the Grand Erg Oriental Dune Sea
Real Sahara. Big dunes. No guardrails.
Afghanistan
ExtremeWakhan Corridor Road — Ishkashim to Sarhad-e Broghil via the Panj River Valley
Silk Road's last untamed corridor.
Alaska
ModerateDenali Highway — Paxson to Cantwell via the Alaska Range
134 miles of tundra with Denali on your dashboard.
Magadan Oblast
ExtremeRoad of Bones — Magadan to Yakutsk via Kolyma Highway
Built on bones. Every kilometer proves it.
Aysén
ModerateCarretera Austral — Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins via Patagonia’s Spine
Patagonia's spine. Where the road ends, the ice begins.
Namibia
ExpertSkeleton Coast Park Track — Springbokwasser Gate to Mowe Bay via the Forbidden Coast
The coast that shipwrecked empires. Permit mandatory.
China
ModerateRooftop of the World Highway — Kashgar to Khunjerab Pass via the Karakoram Highway
Silk Road to the sky. Two countries, one pass.